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A call to the unconverted, to turn and live
A call to the unconverted, to turn and live; and accept of mercy, while mercy may be had; as they ever would find mercy, in the day of extremity from the living God. / By his unworthy servant, Richard Baxter.
Philadelphia: printed for Matthew Carey, 1795Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey, 1795
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Object. 5. But I am no whoremonger, nor drunkard, nor oppressor; and therefore why should you call upon me to be converted.?
Answ. As if you were not born after the flesh, and had not lived after the flesh as well as others! Is it not as great a sin as any of these, for a man to have an earthly mind, and to love the world above God, and to have an unbelieving unhumbled heart? Nay, let me tell you more, that many persons that avoid disgraceful sins, are as f•st glued to the world, and as much slaves to the ⟨p. 84⟩flesh, and as strange to God, and averse to heaven in their more civil course, as others are in their more shameful notorious sins,
Object. 6. But I mean no body any harm, nor do no harm; and why then should God condemn me?
Answ. Is it no harm to neglect the Lord that made thee, and the work for which thou camest into the world, and to prefer the creature before the Creator, and to neglect grace that is daily offered thee? It is the depth of thy sinfulness to be so insensible of it, the dead feel not that they are dead. If once thou wert made alive, thou wouldest see more amiss in thyself, and marvel at thyself for making so light of it.